Yeah that's because their drives on't fail as often so staff don't know what to do.

Great find OP. Heat

Great price, bought one - have some heat

Mine's coming from Germany :confused:

Scheduled to arrive on Friday :confused:

Mine arrived yesterday. The WD Elements box had holes in it and the drive enclosure, whilst new had some scratch marks through the protective plastic wrapper, but the drive worked fine.

Called customer services hoping they'd offer a £10 discount. Completely chuffed when they gave me a 50% refund.

4TB for £35 - result

most are rebadged greens so you may want to change the park settings in firmware

Not really if you're keeping them in the enclosure and using them as external drives. But if you're taking them out and using them internally (as some of us do) there are differences which are explained here.

Is anyone a 'Seagate fanboy'?

Now that's interesting, I would've preferred a red over a blue, but oh well, a blue is adequate for my uses.

ION the seagate fanboys are going mad right now over the expansion 4TB drive at £84.99.... We definitely got a better deal with this :wink:

Does it make a difference which one you get?

Just to show how random it is, I bought two drives and one is a Red and the other is a Blue. Quite pleased to get a 4TB Red for £70 seeing as they're currently selling for £129 on Amazon! Haven't decided what to do with them yet (use as internal or keep external).

Interesting read here about this Blue series drive. Does this mean that WD are introducing Blue series drive with the Element range secretly? Sneaky sods.

Got mine earlier, CrystalDiskInfo is telling me it's packing a WD40EZRZ. I'm not going to crack it open to confirm, it's going to be a backup drive so its staying in the enclosure.

Now I'm worried my second one could be blue..

Used it to go around the edge to open the clips, was watching a youtube video, not sure if it's the best way :smiley:

Mine is blue, only needed a screwdriver for the sata to usb board, the casing was just clipped on.

This drive to be exact : http://www.ebuyer.com/719750-wd-blue-4tb-3-5-sata-desktop-hard-drive-wd40ezrz

Good to know. At least that will put to a stop to the all false accusations of Amazon selling recertified drives in brand new sealed retail units.

Just got mine and set about it with a screwdriver.... 4TB Green WD40EZRX, normal SATA drive.. jackpot :smile:

Mine arrived, it is new (as expected) not refurbished. Pretty quiet and fast too (160MB/s sequential writes).

I can't imagine Amazon selling recertified drives as new.

Mine dispatched also.

Mine are dispatched, thanks op :smile:

That's good to know. Mine doesn't say dispatched but it's supposed to be arriving tomorrow (prime). I bought two and I might crack one of them open to check the drive inside. If it wasn't a misprice I don't know why they were so cheap (the 3TB version was more expensive).

These are brand new sealed retail units direct from Amazon UK. Have some faith with Amazon's customer services or you could buy from Currys PCWorld & try out their aftersales services.

bring on the hard drive/SSD/microSD 2016 price crash!: )

Why would they be? It was direct from Amazon (not a marketplace seller), they weren't advertised as recertified/refurbished and as far as I'm aware HDD manufacturers aren't allowed to use recertified drives inside external enclosures and sell them as "new" in the UK anymore.

Have to wait and see when mine arrives, if it is indeed a recertified one Amazon can have it back :stuck_out_tongue:

Got a feeling these will be recertified drives the price is about right for those.

Good news :smile: I'll have to wait until friday for mine, because non-prime peasant

Thanks mate, I'm a long time lurker, wanted something decent to contribute and am glad to give something back to the community! Can't believe how scorching hot this got, just gutted it expired just before 500o. Thanks for all the positive feedback everyone.

Showing £116 now :disappointed:

My one just got dispatched so if it was a misprice Amazon are honouring it. Thanks for the deal post, good price.

Hopefully this is a sign of things to come 8-)

Damn it. I dithered on this one and just as I decide to go for it it's gone! You snooze you lose on here sometimes! Great post OP!

Thanks

Cheers There was a separate post for Seagate 5TB for only £85.37, but it got removed very quickly. Thanks Vegeta that now makes sense.

Because it wasn't sold directly by Amazon, was a private seller with 6 feedback.

It's still there, at #30. Only the price on Amazon is currently £110.99 not £85.37.

Hi does anyone know why "Seagate 5TB is only £85.37" mentioned in post #30 got removed HUKD? Many thanks

Damn I'm too late :disappointed:

out of stock

gone

no more now..

For those who are looking for similar £/TB, this Seagate 5TB is only £85.37
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UNA1O0W/

Apart from the great price and being sold by amazon, remember this one also has an on/off power switch on the back, which is really nice to have.

Bummer...Just paid double this for a fancy 5tb Porsche one yesterday. It does look good and its gonna sit under the TV on show but is it £70 better...8tb (two) for the price of 5tb...mmm...to cancel or not...

Nice one, thanks pal. :sunglasses:

hot deal op smiley face from me :smiley:

Exactly what I'm planning on using mine for.

I bought one of the 5TB WD Elements in the Currys deal 6 months ago (89.99) and it wasn't soldered. Easy to remove the drive from the enclosure without doing any damage. It was a WD Blue drive and it's in my PC now. This should be the same unless they are old stock. Would be very nice if Amazon do honour the deal (£17.50/tb).

Scratch my comment just seen it can

Yes it can, read the reviews.

Great price, bought one - have some heat

Can these be used for Xbox one storage?

first post? constructive help? keep posing more deals like this and you'll go far! Heat heat heat heat :smile:

bought, great price

Green series drive inside these.

I ordered 2 a few hours ago. Looked like a misprice to me but you never know....

Great price. Heated and Ordered. Thanks Op

First post, fantastic find :smiley:

Can you open this and use the hdd as an internal drive? Or is this with the one with the usb soldered directly onto the HDD.

Great. Thank you very much finder.

Great. Thank you very much finder.

Thanks.

Great find hot from me

Ordered
Thanks OP
Heat

That is a tempting price

This is the one for me! Great find and thanks :smiley:

4tb for £70 quid tells you all you need to know.

Looks hot to me!

Yeah that's because their drives on't fail as often so staff don't know what to do.

Great find,but wd customer service not a patch on Seagate.

Great find OP. Heat